Jesus doesn't love me the way I am?
When we think about the love of God toward us, we're so tempted to immediately go to our own merits, and if we don't feel we have enough merits to achieve the love of God, which we don't, and that's true, then we have to go to the opposite extreme to say, well, God just loves me just the way I am. W...
Jesus: Filled by God or God Himself?
One of the earliest debates in the Christian Church had to do with the deity of Jesus Christ, and this was a major issue for the Church, and one question that was brought up is the idea of, is Christ a human being who was simply filled by God, or is Jesus Christ fully God? And we would say that that...
What does it mean to walk in Christ?
Jesus said multiple times in the Gospel of John that if you love Him, you obey His commandments. And really, very simply, that is what it means to be a Christian. That's what it means to walk in Christ. We're told seven times, for example, in the Book of Ephesians to walk with the Lord, and we're gi...
Church Planting Basic Training
When is a Church Plant Now a Fully Established Church?
There are a wide variety of opinions on the difference between a “church plant” and a “church,” so admittedly, this final article in the series more seasoned advice based my own experiences.